My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
James Broughton

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
David Letterman

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
Heinrich Schliemann

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
Thomas Kuhn

Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Benjamin E. Mays

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.
Robert Stack

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
Barbara Amiel

On the other hand, always aim to be the best in what you do and give 100%.
Benjamin Cohen

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry B. Adams

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks Adams

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.
Mary MacLane

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.
John Hutton

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.
Dennis Bergkamp

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
W. Somerset Maugham

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Karl Von Clausewitz